The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Alan Myers, Yury Dombrovsky

The Faculty of Useless Knowledge

Alan Myers, Yury Dombrovsky

512 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

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Dombrovsky's tale of an exiled intellectual who, in the far province of Alma-Ata, becomes an archeologist and is arrested and interrogated by a Stalinist prosecutor (who will later himself become a target of the Great Terror), is largely autobiogr...

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